I don't see what the big deal is. Tho what I do find interesting is walking into a local music store named "Record & Tape Traders" and finding no records or tapes. Blah.
Yes VHS is on its way out. The worst problem with this is the eventual loss of films that will never be released on DVD.
and "protected CD's" become more common, will they be giving up the recording media tax? The original assumption behind it was that blank media would be used to copy copyrighted works, but if the works in question are "protected" from copying, then they no longer have a case for the media tax, correct?
I wanna see how this plays out and I hope someone finds an angry grandmother type who doesn't take any guff to be the posterchild for this.
"Or as long as they continue to see a culture around Linux that takes every opportunity to insult and abuse them. See, I don't even care if you're right if you can't talk to me like a civilized intelligent human being."
True. But that works both ways. And I'm NOT a Linux fanatic. I work in an MS shop. I was hired for my skill with MS products. I can make MS stuff be stable, secure(relatively) and reliable. EVERYONE here knows it. The powers that be just don't want the opinion of (it seems) someone who 1)isn't a college graduate, or 2)isn't a manager of some sort. Respect is earned. and that works both ways. And frankly anyone who is a fanatic about platform needs to go away, platform means nothing. Does a secretary really need a P4 with DVD authoring and video out? This is why we haven't had a decent raise in several years.
"magine people being able to compare. Imagine them having a comparison running in the palm of their hand.
How long do you think people would put up with M$."
They never will switch as long as the idiots who decide what to buy continue to fall victim to both their own stupidity (why not listen to your tech staff?) and M$'s flashy marketing and salesdroids.
Sorry to say, but its probably the truth. At least from what I've seen.
"One thing to take note of (in reference to the above message in this thread) -- only ghost machines with the same exact hardware!"
Best ghosting tactic for individual workstations:
Install a secondary (normally unused) HDD, ghost the primary drive and make certain the BIOS is set to ignore the second drive. Have a problem? Reboot, activate the secondary drive, re-image the primary. A little bit of an expence but well worth it.
Sadly, in the environment I'm in this would get the IT guy who did it canned.
Before you try anything like this, make certain you can outmaneuver anybody's political BS. One phone call to _your_ boss by the right person could be very bad.
Politics around here is so bad that one department bought a single (external parallel port) ZIP 100 and managed to get the IT folks to send someone around once a week, moving the ZIP, to back up every machine.
Your best bet, get your superior on board no matter what you do, and get your a$$ covered on paper.
"IP is traditionally held by an individual or corporation."
True, but only in relatively recent history. Intellectual Property is a very new concept and had the modern Corp-centric view of IP existed in say Greek or Roman times, there would be no modern civilization.
No this is the kind of stuff that MODEL MAKERS were supposed to replace. But then again they're a nearly extict breed these days due to over reliance on CG.
I remember alot of great scenes that were done with model work. Including cockpit perspective fly-thrus.
I don't think this is a last mile solution for broadband (at least in denser population areas) so long as it uses that stretch of unprotected spectrum. With the growing level of noise as the equipment becomes more commonplace I would really need some type of guaranteed reliability before adopting this. Tho I must admit, it is pretty nifty nontheless.
Ok, so they say I have a contract with me, they get me the programming then I watch the spots. Fine. Who do I talk to about their end of things? I mean, there are over a dozen stations in my area and only two come in half-way decent. They want me to watch the spot, they can get me the show. Oh, did I mention my power is off? Where can I send them my bill? They can just send me a tape of the show I guess and I'll watch it at a friend's place if they like.
"I can see someone deciding to make all TV shows, as presented by the networks, complete with commercials, as a separate copyrightable object. This would mean that no one could skip the commercials."
So? Every book I've ever purchased was a completely copyrighted item, but that still doesn't make it illegal to skip pages.
I find it _highly_ offensive that the network boneheads not only think its theft if I choose not to watch a commercial, but some are soon going to add more commercial time by not airing the credits of the programs! I could give a damn about ads. If I need something I'll find out all about what I'm looking for on my own.
"I'm sure if you were to try something like that any local US judge would call you a nut job and throw the book at you, or put you somewhere where you can get all the "happy candy" you want along with a nice white coat."
Isn't that what somebody should have done to the idiots who declared war on something that isnt even a country?
Uh, actually Congress declared war on drugs in 1986. Really. I kid you not. Busted for possession? Surrender as a prisoner of war and claim your Geneva Convention rights. They can't even bring you into a civilian court. Congress is a joke these days.
Personally I wonder why exactly the US refused the offer that Sudan made several years ago to turn over Usama Bin Laden to us.
Except for the fact that CD's sound just dandy to me on anything I'll be playing them on, and there is no incentive to jump formats and invest in new equipment like there was with cassette tape to CD.
So I get the industry's idea, protect the better quality, but if the quality increase is going to be negligable, who cares?
Then how exactly is it copy-proof? I have several CD-ROM drives laying around that can be used as stand-alone audio CD players. So if the Red Book complient disc can be read by the Red Book complient CD-ROM drive and fed directly down the audio path I choose, such as into my stereo or (wait for it)right into my sound card, how is this copy proof?
I understand the industry's position in all this, but I would think they employed a few people with enough wits to know that copy restricting an audio product is never gonna work.
And as far as the added capabilities go, who's gonna buy new hardware? We STILL haven't standardize DVD burners yet. I don't need any new media formats, I already have enough obsolete junk in my house.
Actually, while I will concede that the _intent_ may not necessarily have been to replace commercials, that fact remains that for a long period of time (years) ad spots only appeared on the broadcast networks the cable system (mine at least) was carrying.
But then advertisers started to appear on other cable channels, and somehow the cost for cable _increased_? WTF?
Yes he does have a point, but only regarding over-the-air broadcast stations. Cable TV in its initial development/deployment had zero advertiser support. The fee for cable service was meant to support the station. Frankly I'm surprised the whole 'show producer'-'broadcaster'-'advertiser'-'veiwer' system didn't collapsed years ago.
Check again, recently they have been advertising enlistment straight into Special Forces. I checked it out, its true. There's an 18(+/-)month training program as opposed to the regular boot camp/AIT of normal forces, but you can enlist straight into Special Forces.
Sorry, no more Netscape for me. No IE. Mozilla is ok, but frankly I'll just stick with Opera. All the functionality I need and quite small compared to the others out there.
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Or such classics in bad cinema like Innocent Blood. =P
I just can't escape from either my whole 80's upbringing or my love of truely bad movies.
I don't see what the big deal is. Tho what I do find interesting is walking into a local music store named "Record & Tape Traders" and finding no records or tapes. Blah.
Yes VHS is on its way out. The worst problem with this is the eventual loss of films that will never be released on DVD.
and "protected CD's" become more common, will they be giving up the recording media tax? The original assumption behind it was that blank media would be used to copy copyrighted works, but if the works in question are "protected" from copying, then they no longer have a case for the media tax, correct?
I wanna see how this plays out and I hope someone finds an angry grandmother type who doesn't take any guff to be the posterchild for this.
"Or as long as they continue to see a culture around Linux that takes every opportunity to insult and abuse them. See, I don't even care if you're right if you can't talk to me like a civilized intelligent human being."
True. But that works both ways. And I'm NOT a Linux fanatic. I work in an MS shop. I was hired for my skill with MS products. I can make MS stuff be stable, secure(relatively) and reliable. EVERYONE here knows it. The powers that be just don't want the opinion of (it seems) someone who 1)isn't a college graduate, or 2)isn't a manager of some sort. Respect is earned. and that works both ways. And frankly anyone who is a fanatic about platform needs to go away, platform means nothing. Does a secretary really need a P4 with DVD authoring and video out? This is why we haven't had a decent raise in several years.
"magine people being able to compare. Imagine them having a comparison running in the palm of their hand.
How long do you think people would put up with M$."
They never will switch as long as the idiots who decide what to buy continue to fall victim to both their own stupidity (why not listen to your tech staff?) and M$'s flashy marketing and salesdroids.
Sorry to say, but its probably the truth. At least from what I've seen.
but why would you need networking to the desktop that's so much faster than the data transfer rates if the internal components?
"One thing to take note of (in reference to the above message in this thread) -- only ghost machines with the same exact hardware!"
Best ghosting tactic for individual workstations:
Install a secondary (normally unused) HDD, ghost the primary drive and make certain the BIOS is set to ignore the second drive. Have a problem? Reboot, activate the secondary drive, re-image the primary. A little bit of an expence but well worth it.
Sadly, in the environment I'm in this would get the IT guy who did it canned.
Before you try anything like this, make certain you can outmaneuver anybody's political BS. One phone call to _your_ boss by the right person could be very bad.
Politics around here is so bad that one department bought a single (external parallel port) ZIP 100 and managed to get the IT folks to send someone around once a week, moving the ZIP, to back up every machine.
Your best bet, get your superior on board no matter what you do, and get your a$$ covered on paper.
"IP is traditionally held by an individual or corporation."
True, but only in relatively recent history. Intellectual Property is a very new concept and had the modern Corp-centric view of IP existed in say Greek or Roman times, there would be no modern civilization.
No this is the kind of stuff that MODEL MAKERS were supposed to replace. But then again they're a nearly extict breed these days due to over reliance on CG.
I remember alot of great scenes that were done with model work. Including cockpit perspective fly-thrus.
Yeah, sure it is. But only because of the hassle involved in shutting down a city.
I am frankly prepared to be unimpressed with the sequels.
I don't think this is a last mile solution for broadband (at least in denser population areas) so long as it uses that stretch of unprotected spectrum. With the growing level of noise as the equipment becomes more commonplace I would really need some type of guaranteed reliability before adopting this. Tho I must admit, it is pretty nifty nontheless.
Ok, so they say I have a contract with me, they get me the programming then I watch the spots. Fine. Who do I talk to about their end of things? I mean, there are over a dozen stations in my area and only two come in half-way decent. They want me to watch the spot, they can get me the show. Oh, did I mention my power is off? Where can I send them my bill? They can just send me a tape of the show I guess and I'll watch it at a friend's place if they like.
"I can see someone deciding to make all TV shows, as presented by the networks, complete with commercials, as a separate copyrightable object. This would mean that no one could skip the commercials."
So? Every book I've ever purchased was a completely copyrighted item, but that still doesn't make it illegal to skip pages.
I find it _highly_ offensive that the network boneheads not only think its theft if I choose not to watch a commercial, but some are soon going to add more commercial time by not airing the credits of the programs! I could give a damn about ads. If I need something I'll find out all about what I'm looking for on my own.
While I do tend to concur...
"I'm sure if you were to try something like that any local US judge would call you a nut job and throw the book at you, or put you somewhere where you can get all the "happy candy" you want along with a nice white coat."
Isn't that what somebody should have done to the idiots who declared war on something that isnt even a country?
Uh, actually Congress declared war on drugs in 1986. Really. I kid you not. Busted for possession? Surrender as a prisoner of war and claim your Geneva Convention rights. They can't even bring you into a civilian court. Congress is a joke these days.
Personally I wonder why exactly the US refused the offer that Sudan made several years ago to turn over Usama Bin Laden to us.
Except for the fact that CD's sound just dandy to me on anything I'll be playing them on, and there is no incentive to jump formats and invest in new equipment like there was with cassette tape to CD.
So I get the industry's idea, protect the better quality, but if the quality increase is going to be negligable, who cares?
Then how exactly is it copy-proof? I have several CD-ROM drives laying around that can be used as stand-alone audio CD players. So if the Red Book complient disc can be read by the Red Book complient CD-ROM drive and fed directly down the audio path I choose, such as into my stereo or (wait for it)right into my sound card, how is this copy proof?
I understand the industry's position in all this, but I would think they employed a few people with enough wits to know that copy restricting an audio product is never gonna work.
And as far as the added capabilities go, who's gonna buy new hardware? We STILL haven't standardize DVD burners yet. I don't need any new media formats, I already have enough obsolete junk in my house.
Dude, its SPIDER-MAN!
Exactly how many years BEFORE Lucas even wrote Star Wars was Spider-man first published?
How is it that kids are seemingly solely credited with Spider-man's success in the box office?
My DAD(!) couldn't wait to see Spider-man, and if I recall, Star Wars gave him a headache.
Perhap you should switch to solely political commentary, because you're only making about that much sense.
Actually, while I will concede that the _intent_ may not necessarily have been to replace commercials, that fact remains that for a long period of time (years) ad spots only appeared on the broadcast networks the cable system (mine at least) was carrying.
But then advertisers started to appear on other cable channels, and somehow the cost for cable _increased_? WTF?
Yes he does have a point, but only regarding over-the-air broadcast stations. Cable TV in its initial development/deployment had zero advertiser support. The fee for cable service was meant to support the station. Frankly I'm surprised the whole 'show producer'-'broadcaster'-'advertiser'-'veiwer' system didn't collapsed years ago.
With commercial skippers and channel surfers being thieves and all that, violating their contracts with the networks....
Gee, and I thought that paying for cable in the first place was meant to eliminate the need for commercial spots.
Check again, recently they have been advertising enlistment straight into Special Forces. I checked it out, its true. There's an 18(+/-)month training program as opposed to the regular boot camp/AIT of normal forces, but you can enlist straight into Special Forces.
True enough, altho frankly I'm a bit puzzled be the Army's decision to recruit directly into the Special Forces.
Frankly I'd like those people to have a firm understanding of how the "regular" military units and people operate.
Sorry, no more Netscape for me. No IE. Mozilla is ok, but frankly I'll just stick with Opera. All the functionality I need and quite small compared to the others out there.